Public Administration Perspective

Smart University, A Ways to Improve International Rankings of Universities (ISC Ranking System)

Document Type : Research Article (with quantitative approaches)

Author

Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

With new advances, we will see a new generation of universities called “The Smart University”. In order to realize the Smart University, it is essential for the University to be managed in a smart way and this will be realized with respect to social capital, knowledge gride, smart environment and smart infrastructure.On the other hand, referring to international systems of university rankings is one of the common methods for recognizing the academic credibility and academic status of a university.Hence, the acquisition of high rank and planning to achieve this goal is a great importance to universities. The Islamic world Science Citation Center (ISC) is one of the ranking systems that offers a more cohesive track of all aspects of a university than others.In the present study, the relationship between the dimensions of the Intelligent University with the indicators of this evaluation system has been investigated using expert opinion polls by the Delphi fuzzy method.The results show the significant impact of the dimensions of the University of Intelligence on the research, education and international assessment dimensions, respectively.On the other hand, smart management, smart people and knowledge grid have the most impact in the research field.Consequently, in the case of resource constraints, the implementation of the Smart University may start from the above dimensions, in order to achieve significant and impressive results in international university rankings.The urgent attention and rapid movement of universities towards the realization of the Smart University is a necessity, which results will be considerable even in international rankings.

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Public Administration Perspective
Volume 10, Issue 4 - Serial Number 40
January 2020
Pages 15-40